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...Pacific and by allowing expensive hardware to be re-used for perhaps 100 flights, shuttles will sharply reduce the cost of putting men and materiel into space. That price now comes to more than $1,000 for every pound lifted into orbit by NASA's nonre-usable Saturn 5 boosters. Shuttles should reduce the tab to $50 per Ib. or less...
...spacecraft, the astronauts struggled to make the best of their dangerous predicament. While two slept fitfully in the unpowered and chilly command module, the third remained on watch "downstairs" in the lunar module. Ground controllers had at least one bit of cheering news. To the delight of scientists, the Saturn third-stage S-4B rocket (which itself had been aimed toward the moon after giving Apollo its final boost) had hit the lunar surface exactly as planned. Its impact created a reverberation that registered for four hours on the Apollo 12 Ocean of Storms seismometer. "Well, at least something worked...
Only one mechanical bug marred the launch: the inboard engine of the Saturn rocket's second stage shut down two minutes prematurely. But the remaining four engines of the stage automatically compensated by firing 33 seconds longer than programmed, and the third-stage S-4B rocket burned an extra ten seconds to boost the spacecraft unerringly into earth orbit. Then, after 1½ revolutions of the earth, a five-minute blast from the S-4B sent the fifth U.S. manned lunar mission on a long glide toward the moon...
...disease (which can blur vision and swell the joints in the hand), perhaps while alone in orbit around the moon. If the mission were delayed until the next practical launch date, May 9, the extra cost would be $800,000 and there might also be some deterioration of the Saturn systems. In contrast, there was the possibility of replacing Mattingly with his back-up crewman, John Swigert, who was found to have immunity against rubella. But Swigert had trained only with the back-up crew and there was doubt that he could properly coordinate with Lovell and Haise on such...
...precaution, one of Apollo's three fuel cells has been placed in a separate circuit, lessening the possibility of complete loss of electrical power in the event of an accident. At launch time, the world may get its best live look yet at the flaming ascent of a Saturn rocket; NASA has mounted a new, heat-resistant color TV camera directly on the umbilical tower...